Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Rory Solomon (he/him)
Rory Solomon is Director and Assistant Professor of Code as a Liberal Art in the Culture and Media Department. His research focuses on mesh networks, communications infrastructure, wireless media, antennas, and the history of ham and Citizens Band radio. He teaches critical computer science comprised of computer programming in a humanities and liberal arts context, critical making, and 20th century media history.
Course(s) Taught: Code as a Liberal Art; Digital Media Off-the-Grid; Radical Software; Code Toolkit
David Bering-Porter (he/him)
David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts at The New School, USA. Areas of research include film and media studies, new media theory, and the intersections of media, science, and technology.
Course(s) Taught: Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin van Buren (he/him)
Hello! I am an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where I direct the NSSR Perception Laboratory. For more information about the lab, please visit www.nssrperception.com.
Course(s) Taught: Psychology of Aesthetics and Design
Clara Latham (she/her)
Clara is Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Lang, where she brings an eclectic and decidedly interdisciplinary approach to composition, performance, and scholarship about sound, music, and culture.
Course(s) Taught: Musical Timbre or Sound-Color; Sound and Technology
Shannon Mattern (she/her)
Shannon Mattern is a Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition.
Course(s) Taught: Tools: Anvils to Androids; Digital Ethnography
Robin Wagner-Pacifici (she/her)
Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the University in Exile Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of a number of books, most recently What is an Event? (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict’s End.
Jennifer Wilson (she/her)
As a practicing mathematician in a Liberal Arts College, Jennifer is interested in a broad range of mathematics. Her research is focused on mathematics applied to the social sciences, particularly game theory, fair division, voting and allocation problems.
Part-Time Faculty
Ahad Ali (he/him)
Ahad Ali is Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research. He is interested in how expertise is constructed by high-knowledge workers in Artificial Intelligence based technology companies. His other academic interests include Science and Technology Studies, History of Science and Games Studies
Course(s) Taught: Free Software: The Culture and Politics of Open Software (Spring 2022)
Emma Rae Bruml Norton (she/her)
Emma is a computer mouse scholar. In other words she studies the space between humans and computers. She practices writing, teaching and reading and is part-time faculty at The New School, NYU, Rutgers and The School for Poetic Computation.
Course(s) Taught: Code Toolkit: Python (Spring 2022)
Ingrid Burrington (all pronouns)
Ingrid Burrington is the author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure (Melville House Press). More of her writing can be found in The Atlantic, The Verge, and more. Burrington has held residencies at Carnegie Mellon University, Eyebeam, and Pioneer Works, and has most recently exhibited at the Nome Gallery, Oddstream Festival, and Haverford College.
Course(s) Taught: Internet Geographies
Zoe Carey (she/her)
Zoe Carey is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research. She is interested in the impact of data-driven technologies on organizations and issues of expertise and accountability in algorithmic decision-making.
Course(s) Taught: Social Inequality in the Age of Algorithms
Shannon Finnegan (they/them)
Shannon Finnegan is a multidisciplinary artist. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge, Alt-Text as Poetry, and Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches designed for exhibition spaces. They have done projects with Banff Centre, the High Line, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a 2018 Wynn Newhouse Award, a 2019 residency at Eyebeam, and a 2020 grant from Art Matters Foundation.
The profile picture is an original piece by Finnegan.
Course(s) Taught: Art + Code + Disability
Jacob Koehler (he/him)
I'm a mathematics and data science teacher specializing in teaching and learning with and of technologies. Recently, this has meant a focus on computing and data science as applications of mathematical modeling. I look forward to opportunities to engage students of all backgrounds with contemporary problems in the liberal art of mathematics and computational science.
Course(s) Taught: Python: Data, Science , & Design
Melody Loveless (she/her)
Melody Loveless is a Brooklyn based composer and creative technologist who experiments and creates works for digital media, and acoustic and electronic instruments. Her work is influenced by story-telling, science, crossing between mediums and genres, and interactive art. She has had the opportunity to work with many great musicians such as So Percussion, the JACK Quartet, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Barnard-Columbia Ancient Drama Group, NEXTET New Music Ensemble, Washington Square Winds and NYU Contemporary Ensemble.
Course(s) Taught: Live Coding
Charlie Muller (she/her)
Charlie is a doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. She is interested in the political economy of telecommunications. Her current research focuses on the history of the International Telecommunications Union. Her writing can be found in Logic Magazine, Mask Magazine, and more.
Course(s) Taught: Digital Equity, Infrastructure, and Access
Morgan Mueller (he//him)
Morgan Mueller is an Artist, Researcher, and one of the co-founders of Trash Club. His artistic practice explores systems of infrastructure in the context of labor, resource extraction and global trade. He has held Residencies at the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is currently a member of New Inc's Creative Science track where he and his collaborator are working on long term creative projects focused on legacy waste sites and the philosophical framework of "there is no away".
Course(s) Taught: Internet Geographies (Spring 2022)
Dafna Naphtali (she/her)
Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming.
Course(s) Taught: Sound and Technology
Frank Shepard (he/him)
Frank has formal training in the humanities, with advanced degrees in the study of philosophy, religion, South Asian studies and the social sciences. He also has more than a decade of professional experience as a technologist, spanning from web design to full-stack application development. He is currently working as a front-end engineer in programmatic marketing.
Course(s) Taught: Code Toolkit
Ursula Wolz (she/her)
Ursula Wolz, PhD, is a computer scientist and educator who studies how people learn programming in a variety of settings, from after school middle school enrichment programs, to college classrooms. At Lang she is teaching courses for novice programmers that explore concept of human and machine learning, as well as 'code crafting’ that demonstrates how textile designers invented coding long before the invention of the Jacquard loom.
Course(s) Taught: Coding Natural Language Processing; Do Machines Learn?; Code Crafting; Machine Learning and Human Decision Making
Xin Xin (they/them)
Xin Xin is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer working at the intersection of technology, labor, and identity. Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They were the Director and Lead Organizer for Processing Community Day 2019, a worldwide initiative celebrating art, code, and diversity, and they currently serve on the advisory board for the Processing Foundation. Their work has been exhibited and screened at Ars Electronica, DIS, Gene Siskel Film Center, Machine Project and they are an Eyebeam fellow. Xin received their M.F.A from UCLA Design Media Arts and teaches at the Parsons School of Design as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design.
Course(s) Taught: Critical Computation Lab (previously Code 1 )